Bayesian Analysis of Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 and Beyond (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series) - Softcover

Broemeling, Lyle D.

 
9780367647247: Bayesian Analysis of Infectious Diseases: COVID-19 and Beyond (Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0367647249 ISBN 13: 9780367647247
Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC, 2022

Synopsis

Bayesian Analysis of Infectious Diseases -COVID-19 and Beyond shows how the Bayesian approach can be used to analyze the evolutionary behavior of infectious diseases, including the coronavirus pandemic. The book describes the foundation of Bayesian statistics while explicating the biology and evolutionary behavior of infectious diseases, including viral and bacterial manifestations of the contagion. The book discusses the application of Markov Chains to contagious diseases, previews data analysis models, the epidemic threshold theorem, and basic properties of the infection process. Also described are the chain binomial model for the evolution of epidemics.

Features:

  • Represents the first book on infectious disease from a Bayesian perspective.
  • Employs WinBUGS and R to generate observations that follow the course of contagious maladies.
  • Includes discussion of the coronavirus pandemic as well as many examples from the past, including the flu epidemic of 1918-1919.
  • Compares standard non-Bayesian and Bayesian inferences.
  • Offers the R and WinBUGS code on at www.routledge.com/9780367633868

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About the Author

Lyle D. Broemeling, Ph.D., is Director of Broemeling and Associates Inc., and is a consulting biostatistician. He has been involved with academic health science centers for about 20 years and has taught and been a consultant at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Texas School of Public Health. His main interest is in developing Bayesian methods for use in medical and biological problems and in authoring textbooks in statistics. His previous books are Bayesian Biostatistics and Diagnostic Medicine, and Bayesian Methods for Agreement.

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Publisher
Chapman and Hall/CRC
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0367647249
ISBN 13 
9780367647247
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
342

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